{"id":3412,"date":"2016-12-09T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:26:03","slug":"teens-get-earful-white-privilege-sanctioned-high-school-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/2016\/12\/teens-get-earful-white-privilege-sanctioned-high-school-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens get an earful about their \u201cwhite privilege\u201d at sanctioned high school assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/468968424\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 71.380471% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/468968424?et=mpTSaA2GTURZkDRrL_nCfA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=-4HEr8XcsPM70ajXZQDYG6QMPQrchfDBxM-0VmpxO0k=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students at a prestigious high school in New Jersey were treated to an impromptu lecture on their \u201cwhite privilege\u201d during a speech that was supposed to teach them about online safety.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alison Macrina, the\u00a0founder of the Library Freedom Project, was invited by Princeton High School to teach kids what to watch out for and what to avoid when they surf the web. However, she got miffed midway through her talk after a few teens started to giggle their way through her speech on encountering racist and sexist trolls online.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the students said they were laughing about trolls, not the comments on racism or sexism. But in the moment, Macrina became incensed and assumed it must be their \u201cwhite privilege\u201d kicking in and felt it necessary to call them out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/principal-apologizes-after-speaker-lectures-teens-on-their-white-privilege\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Heatstreet<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She accused the students of cheering\u00a0for white supremacist symbols like Nazi swastikas. Discussing the incident afterward on Twitter\u00a0\u2014 where she goes by the handle \u201clocal resistance\u201d \u2014 Macrina said she was \u201castonished\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When the student started laughing during the assembly, Macrina emotionally lectured them on their \u201cwhite privilege\u201d, which only got the students rowdier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, like any good millennial, Macrina lashed out on Twitter admitting she injected anti-Trump sentiments, too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/552\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-08-at-12.27.07-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3413\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3413\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/552\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-08-at-12.27.07-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-12-08 at 12.27.07 PM\" width=\"624\" height=\"634\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/552\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-08-at-12.27.20-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3414\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3414\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/552\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-08-at-12.27.20-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-12-08 at 12.27.20 PM\" width=\"627\" height=\"428\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The principal of the school sent out an apology to students on behalf of the invited guest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe live in a turbulent time with emotions running high. While I can\u2019t make excuses for our speaker, my perception is that she found herself caught up in the post-election climate and allowed that to influence her presentation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m calling BS on that because if the principal would\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryfreedomproject.org\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">looked at Macrina\u2019s website<\/a> even for a second, it would\u2019ve been very apparent that her organization is all about identity politics and the \u201cglobal struggles for justice.\u201d Surely the school could\u2019ve found a more neutral source for kids to learn how to stay safe online.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we just get back to teaching them science and math and how to speak 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